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- Connor Parker
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- "Quick Queue: Cold War Jazz"
- Summary: By Amy Friedman. The Cold War standoff between the Soviet Union and the U.S. was a war of ideologies. To counter the conforming proletariat of state-sponsored Socialist Realism, U.S. officials turned to jazz musicians to serve as cultural ambassadors of freedom and individuality. The problem is that many of these musicians were denied certain freedoms the U.S. sought to promote. To hear the rest of this story, and other arts and culture reporting from the Twin Cities and beyond, tune in to Culture Queue, Sunday evening at 6PM. Or listen online at radiok.org.
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Review of Cold War Jazz
Connor Parker
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 02:11 AM
I love Jazz, I live for Jazz. Jazz music is something I love and I love sharing it with people. So seeing a title with the word "Jazz" in it caught my eye and had me hooked. The background music was splendid and didn't distract me as i listened to the piece. The description was a nice supplement to the audio, as it gave me something to read and process visually while listening. Hearing about jazz's influence during the Cold War was cool because I sometimes forget about jazz within the context of a certain decade or period of time, and this was nice to make me think about how history and jazz relate. While this piece is intended to be a hook to a larger piece, a link to the full one would be nice, because it is taking some hunting to find the full episode. But overall, I really liked this short and sweet segment about jazz.